Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 322 Forming the Air Force
Su Yi heard Zhou Botao, the Chief of the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense, said that he would send the request he just made back to Jinzhou City. Su Yi nodded slightly and continued: "Then trouble Chief of the General Staff Zhou and Minister Zhao, as long as the Ministry of National Defense If you can help send people to escort the families of the generals under my command to Yueyang City, I, Su Yi, will definitely defend Yueyang City to the death!"

Zhou Botao then continued to ask: "Besides this point, is there any other aspect that General Su needs the Ministry of Defense to do?"

Su Yi pondered for a while and said: "The other thing is that I hope that the Ministry of National Defense can allow the temporary formation of the First Army, the Temporary Second Army and the temporary Third Army to recruit troops in the surrounding areas that have not been occupied. After all, only relying on Yueyang City and The population of the five counties of Yuhong, Zhutian, Lanping, Danyan, and Huining cannot compete with the Ice Lion Army for a long time."

Zhou Botao, Chief of the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense, and Zhao Zeling, Deputy Minister of National Defense, frowned again on Su Yi's request. , Temporarily forming the Third Army, together with the troops directly under the City Defense Command, after a new round of expansion, the total strength is close to 170 million. I don't know how General Su plans to solve the logistics supply problem of so many troops. If General Su continued to recruit troops from surrounding unoccupied areas. Isn’t Yueyang City’s logistics pressure even greater? One of the reasons why General Su rejected the dozen or so armies sent by the Ministry of Defense to Yueyang City for reinforcements was not these dozen armies Will it increase the logistical pressure on Yueyang City?"

Su Yi immediately said: "Minister Zhao, the refusal of the Ministry of National Defense to reinforce more than a dozen armies in Yueyang City is only one aspect of the logistical pressure. Just now General Sun Guodong said that due to the reasons for weapons and equipment, the temporary formation of the first army and the temporary formation of the second army The combat methods of the Third Army and the Temporary Third Army are different from other units of our Great Qin Army. The entry of the dozen or so armies into Yueyang City may have affected the defense plan formulated by our Yueyang City Defense Command. In addition, the City Defense Commander The troops directly under the Ministry and the three temporary armies have completed a new round of reorganization, and the total strength will be close to 170 million. For the time being, there is really no need for other troops to support Yueyang City."

After a pause, Su Yi continued: "As for the three temporary armies preparing to recruit troops in the surrounding unoccupied areas, it is also in consideration of the fact that our Yueyang City defenders may be in a long battle with the Ice Lion Army in Yueyang City. I will try my best to solve the war of attrition and logistical supply issues, so as not to cause trouble to the Ministry of National Defense."

After Zhao Zeling and Zhou Botao exchanged glances, Zhao Zeling immediately said: "General Su, Chief of Staff Zhou and I will send your request back to the Ministry of National Defense in Jinzhou City. Is there any other request?"

Su Yi glanced at Wu Youliang, the commander of the temporary Second Army, and then smiled at Zhao Zeling and said, "Minister Zhao, there is one more thing I need your help with."

Zhao Zeling was slightly taken aback, "General Su just ask if you need anything."

Su Yi pointed at Wu Youliang, the commander of the temporary Second Army, "Minister Zhao, Commander Wu Youliang used to be a general of the Zhao family faction, and I valued Commander Wu Youliang very much. I hope that Minister Zhao can give up his love. The commander has nothing to do with the Zhao family faction, he is just the commander of the Second Army temporarily under my command."

Zhao Zeling hesitated for a moment, then turned to Wu Youliang, the temporary commander of the Second Army, and asked, "What does Commander Wu think?"

Wu Youliang said loudly: "I, Wu Youliang, belong to the faction of the Zhao family. If the Zhao family needs me, I am willing to resign immediately as the temporary commander of the Second Army and follow the arrangements of the Zhao family. However, if Minister Zhao asks me to stay in Commander Su, then I, Wu Youliang, will only listen to Commander Su from now on."

Zhao Zeling showed a hint of helplessness on his face. Wu Youliang's statement was obviously to prevent the Zhao family from secretly wooing him in the future, but Zhao Zeling couldn't really let Wu Youliang resign as the temporary commander of the Second Army at this time, "I think Wu Jun Let's stay under General Su's command!"

In the middle of the night on April 2538, 23 in the divine calendar, at the temporary base of the Ministry of National Defense in Jinzhou City, the capital of Nanjiang Province in the Great Qin Kingdom, Liu Fuchen, Minister of National Defense, urgently called together ten other senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense.

"I called you here late at night because Chief of Staff Zhou Botao and Deputy Minister Zhao just sent a telegram back from Yueyang City. On the table in front of you is a copy of this telegram. Let's take a look first, and then Let's discuss whether we should agree to Su Yi's request." Minister of National Defense Liu Fuchen said in a deep voice to ten other senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense.

After reading the copy of the telegram, Deputy Minister He Binghui said with a wry smile: "It seems that our Ministry of National Defense can only agree to these two requests made by Su Yi. If Su Yi really led his troops to leave Yueyang in a fit of anger City, the other troops of our Great Qin Army are not capable of stopping the million-strong army of the Ice Lion Kingdom in Yueyang City."

Yan Degang, deputy chief of the general staff, sighed and said, "Fortunately, these two requirements of Su Yi are not too much, but this also indicates that a new faction represented by Su Yi is born, and for the time being, the power in Su Yi's hands has already over the other factions."

Faced with Su Yi's threat of leading troops to withdraw from Yueyang City, the big bosses of the Ministry of National Defense could only choose to compromise. Early the next morning, Minister of Defense Liu Fuchen gave Zhou Botao, Chief of Staff and Deputy Minister Zhao Zeling, who were in Yueyang City, A telegram was sent back, indicating that the Ministry of National Defense basically agreed to the two requests made by Su Yi.

On the morning of the second day after the observation team of the Ministry of National Defense arrived in Yueyang City, Air Force Lieutenant General Sun Peng met with Su Yi alone, expressing the request of the Daqin Air Force for individual air defense missile technology.

Sun Peng said to Su Yi in a deep voice: "Commander Su, the young pilots of our Daqin Air Force are all good. The performance of several fighters equipped by the Daqin Army is so different from the fighters of the Ice Lion Air Force that our Daqin Air Force has suffered defeat in every air battle, so our Air Force desperately hopes to improve the performance of the remaining fighters. "

Su Yi shook his head slightly and said: "At present, the individual air defense missiles equipped by my army are not suitable for refitting on fighter jets. After all, it is actually a surface-to-air missile, and fighter jets need to be equipped with air defense missiles. Anti-aircraft missiles."

Sun Peng's eyes lit up, "Commander Su, do you still have air-to-air missiles in your hand?"

Su Yi shook his head and said, "I don't have any air-to-air missiles in my hand yet. By the way, General Sun, how many fighters do we have left in the Daqin Air Force?"

Sun Peng didn't understand what Su Yi meant by the word "temporarily". Hearing that Su Yi didn't have any air-to-air missiles that could be equipped on fighter jets, Sun Peng's face showed a little sadness , "Commander Su, since the three aircraft factories in our Great Qin State that produced fighter jets and bombers were all blown into ruins by the air force of the Ice Lion Country, we can only rely on the machinery and equipment salvaged from the three aircraft factories. Some fighters and bombers were manufactured, but the number of fighters and bombers produced was far from the number consumed by the war. Now our Daqin Air Force only has more than 160 fighters and more than 50 bombers left, and there are also more than a dozen transport planes and several A spy plane."

Su Yi then asked again: "Then I wonder how many pilots our Daqin Air Force currently has?"

Sun Peng sighed and said: "The number of pilots is enough. Not counting the more than 700 pilots who are studying at the Aviation Military Academy, our Daqin Air Force has more than 800 active pilots. Unfortunately, the number of fighters in our Daqin Air Force is too small. , and the performance is too backward, I can only watch the air force of the ice lion country show off its power in the sky of our great Qin country."

Su Yi's next words made Sun Peng stand up excitedly, "General Sun, I now have twenty fighter jets and ten bombers in my hand, but I don't have a pilot, and this fighter jet in my hand and this In terms of performance, it even surpasses several fighters and bombers equipped by the Ice Lion Air Force."

It turned out that Su Yi asked an aircraft manufacturer in the Tang Empire to imitate the Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter jet and the Junker-88 dive bomber, and divided these two fighter jets into multiple parts, and then shipped them to Daqin through the Stargate The world on the country side will be assembled by the workers of Yueyang City.

However, because Su Yi had no pilots under his command, Su Yi only transported the spare parts of twenty Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter jets and ten Junker-88 dive bombers to Yueyang City through the Stargate.

"Commander Su, where are the twenty fighter jets and ten bombers? What are their specific capabilities?" Sun Peng asked Su Yi eagerly.

"The fighter jet has a maximum speed of 680 kilometers per hour, an ascent limit of 30 meters, and a range of 13 kilometers. It is equipped with a 470mm machine gun and two 200mm machine guns. The bomber has a top speed of 2.5 kilometers per hour. , the ascent limit is 13 meters, the range is 3 kilometers, the ammunition load is 7.9 tons, and it is equipped with two 109mm machine guns and three 88mm machine guns, which can conduct dive bombing." Su Yi told Messer The technical parameters of the Schmidt Bf[-] fighter jet and the Junker-[-] dive bomber are well known.

Sun Peng said excitedly: "If you follow such technical parameters, the performance will definitely be more advanced than the fighters and bombers equipped by the Ice Lion Air Force. I wonder where Commander Su got these fighters and bombers?"

Su Yi smiled slightly, "General Sun, I can only tell you that more of these two fighters will arrive in Yueyang City in the future, so I hope General Sun can stay and help me form a team belonging to Yueyang City." Air Force, of course the pilots need General Sun to figure out a way, I don’t even have a single pilot under my command.”

When Sun Peng heard what Su Yi meant, he actually wanted to recruit him, so he couldn't help showing hesitation, but soon Sun Peng said: "Commander Su, can I take a look at that fighter jet and that bomber first?" , if it is possible, can you let me take a test flight?"

Su Yi said with a smile: "No problem, I'll let someone take General Sun to our airport in Yueyang City."

In the evening of that day, Sun Peng returned to Su Yi's city defense headquarters with an excited face. After seeing Su Yi, Sun Peng couldn't wait to say: "Commander Su, I, Sun Peng, will not return to Jinzhou City. From now on, I, Sun Peng, will be One of your soldiers, as long as you provide me with sufficient quantities of the two fighters, I, Sun Peng, will definitely build you an eagle in the air that will make the Ice Lion Air Force frightened!"

Su Yi nodded in satisfaction and said: "Don't worry, General Sun, I can provide you with another [-] fighter jets and [-] bombers within seven days, but for the pilots, I can only rely on General Sun to figure out a solution." .”

Sun Peng said confidently: "I, Sun Peng, may not be able to do other things. As for pilots, I can summon at least [-] to [-] experienced pilots with a single telegram."

Su Yi immediately said: "As long as General Sun can summon a sufficient number of pilots, I can provide General Sun with enough fighters and bombers."

"Commander, what are the names of this fighter and bomber?"

"Xiu Bird Fighter, Goshawk Dive Bomber!"

Xiuniao and Goshawk are the names of the Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter jet and the Junkers-88 dive bomber in the Tang Empire. Su Yi decided that these two fighter jets will still be called these two in the world of the Great Qin Kingdom. name.

"What? You want to stay in Yueyang City? Help Su Yi form an air force!" Zhou Botao, Chief of the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense, asked Sun Peng in shock.

Sun Peng nodded affirmatively and said: "Commander Su already has [-] fighter jets and [-] bombers in his hands, and the performance of these fighter jets is very good. The fighters and bombers equipped by the Chinese Air Force cannot compare with it in terms of performance."

The Deputy Minister of National Defense Zhao Zeling next to him couldn't help asking: "Where did Su Yi get these fighters?"

Sun Peng shook his head and said: "I asked, but Commander Su didn't say anything, but Commander Su promised me that as long as I can recruit enough pilots, Commander Su will provide me with more Xiuniao fighter jets and Goshawks." Dive bomber, Showbird and Goshawk are the names of those two fighters."

Zhou Botao frowned, "So, the purpose of Su Yi asking General Sun to stay and form an air force is to let General Sun recruit some pilots from our Great Qin Air Force."

Sun Peng hesitated for a while and said: "Chief of General Staff Zhou, Minister Zhao, our Daqin Air Force is in a very embarrassing situation. There are only more than 160 fighter jets and more than 50 bombers left, and we still dare not compete with the Ice Lion Air Force." For a large-scale frontal battle, I think it is not unreasonable to transfer some pilots to Yueyang City, after all, it is the air power of our Great Qin Kingdom."

Zhou Botao sighed and said: "We also have to report this matter to the Ministry of National Defense, but according to the current situation, even if Su Yi directly asks the Ministry of National Defense for a batch of pilots, the Ministry of National Defense will not refuse."

(End of this chapter)